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• On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

  Tom Waits

  Funny, Life, Death

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• O summer day beside the joyous sea!
  O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
  Forever and forever shalt thou be
  To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
  To some the landmark of a new domain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Pain, July

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140

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• Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

  Jane Smiley

  Avid, Names, Poetry

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.97, Anchor

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• It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  America, Stories, Boxers

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• I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.

  David Ives

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

  Alice Munro

  Notebook, Reading, Knowing

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• I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

  Anne Lamott

  Want, Helpers

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.39, Penguin

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• I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Ashes, Want

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• My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?

  Damon Lindelof

  Lying, Doe, Damon

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• Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Forty, Scarce

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

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• ...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

  Beth Moore

  Tired, Departure, Might

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

  Dan Wells

  Fall, World, Lasts

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• I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Dream, People

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• I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

  Ian Mckellen

  Lying

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• When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

  Steve Blank

  Father, Balance, Gone

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• What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Two, Long

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.28, New World Library

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• There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dying, Culture, Happy Endings

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Biographies, Like You

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• When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Men, Waiting

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

  John C. McGinley

  Lines, Want

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• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

  Patrick Stump

  Aerosmith

  "Patrick Stump: 'I’m Not in Fall Out Boy'" by William Goodman, www.spin.com. February 3, 2010.

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• I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

  Jesse Ventura

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  "Kerry Washington’s Reason For Taking A Digital Detox Is Perfect" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2016.

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• There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Mean

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.

  George R. R. Martin

  Clever, Men, Doe

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.863, Bantam

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• Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

  Kristin Cashore

  Dark, Night, Patches

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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